| Gunmen hold up beauty parlour staff
Five women at a KwaZulu-Natal beauty parlour were held at gunpoint on Thursday and locked in an office � from which they later managed to escape. Police Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu confirmed the incident and said police were presently hunting for the gunmen. The woman � two off them clients and three employees � were held up by the armed men at the Bella Beauty parlour in Westway, Westville, opposite the Pavilion Shopping mall at around 8.30am. Mngomezulu said the two gunmen threatened the women, took their cellphones and belongings and then locked them up in an office. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the woman used a bathroom scale to smash the lock on the door of the room in which they were held. "One woman was hurt in the process and had lacerations on her arm.
Robbers hit beauty parlour
Five women at a KwaZulu Natal beauty parlour were held at gunpoint on Thursday and locked in an office - from which they later managed to escape. Police spokesperson Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu confirmed the incident and said police were presently hunting for the gunmen. The woman - two off them clients and three employees - were held up by the armed men at the Bella Beauty parlour in Westway, Westville, opposite the Pavilion Shopping mall at around 8.30am. Mngomezulu said the two gunmen threatened the women, took their cellphones and belongings and then locked them up in an office. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the woman used a bathroom scale to smash the lock on the door of the room in which they were held. "One woman was hurt in the process and had lacerations on her arm.
'Shangaan women can braid hair, hands down'
"Woza sisi, wozobona [Come sister, come and see]," say the braiders on the corner of Kerk and Eloff streets in downtown Johannesburg.Hundreds of women congregate here every day to provide a vital service to the city's female residents: braiding. At first, anyone could set up shop in this bustling pedestrian mall, flanked by furniture shops. Now, however, there are so many braiders that they have to apply for a permit to work in the area.There are women from almost any Southern African country one could care to name -- Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Angola -- and all have been driven to sit on a cheap plastic chair in the centre of Johannesburg because they make more money here than many of their countrymen will make in a month.Porschia Ncube (46), a teacher from Zimbabwe, says her colleagues in Bulawayo earn Z$3-million (about R680) a month, which she can make in three hours.Competition is fierce.
Heritage rebuilt block by block
The Hasta Shilpa Heritage Village in Manipal is an ode to the architectural ingenuity of the past. A dream project of Vijayanath Shenoy, the Heritage Village showcases the rich architectural beauty of an era gone by. Ronald Anil Fernandes, on the man and his mission. .
Movie review: 'Enchanted' a royal treat
"Enchanted" is a pure comic confection, at once a spoof and a celebration of those Disney fantasies where a prince and princess fall in love over the course of a duet and bluebirds sew her wedding dress. Beginning in a world of classic hand-drawn animation, we meet Princess Giselle and Prince Edward, who give us a full first act in about eight minutes -- character songs, story line, climax and all. Giselle is a sweet innocent who, like Snow White, befriends woodland creatures; shares Belle's taste in gowns, and has Ariel's flowing red hair. The heroic Prince rescues her from a monster and is smitten, but the wicked Queen hates Giselle and pushes her down a well to keep her away from her stepson. The other end of the portal is a modern-day, live-action Times Square. Giselle (Amy Adams) pops through a sewer manhole in a hoop skirt and tiara, eyes agoggle with delight at this strange new land.
Every picture sells a story
Magnum photographic agency began life 60 years ago. A few profoundly gifted individuals possessed of lofty ideals founded an agency that was to be politically engaged, liberal, humanistic and serious. When Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodgers, Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and Bill Vandivert cemented the idea over lunch in the penthouse restaurant of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 1947, Magnum was to be a bastion of 20th-century photojournalistic values. You can see how magnificently it succeeded in a new book published by Thames & Hudson, marking the 60th anniversary of the agency. Magnum Magnumis a great slab of a book – 40cm x 33cm (16in x 13in) and weighing almost 7kg (15lb) – containing more than 400 photographs reproduced on a lavish scale and with equal quality, from Josef Koudelka’s photograph of a prowling hound taken in Sceaux Park in France in 1987 to Cornell Capa’s intimate close-up of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits in 1960.
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